The Scriver Family Visiting Professorship Public Lecture

The Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at The Jewish General Hospital and McGill University Faculty of Medicine present

The Scriver Family Visiting Professorship Public Lecture

GENETICS AND THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE

Introduction:

David S. Rosenblatt, M.D.C.M., F.C.A.H.S., F.C.C.M.G., F.R.C.P.C., Chair, Department of Human Genetics, McGill; Chief, Department of Medical Genetics, Jewish General Hospital.

Rémi Quirion,O.C., Ph.D., C.Q., F.R.S.C., Scientific Director, Douglas Mental Health University Institute; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill; Vice-Dean, Life Sciences and Strategic Initiatives & Senior University Advisor, Health Sciences Research, McGill.

Visiting Professor:

Roderick R. McInnes, C.M., O.Ont., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Alva Professor of Human Genetics, McGill; Professor of Human Genetics and Biochemistry, McGill; Director of Research, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital.

Dr. McInnes, Founding Scientific Director of the Institute of Genetics of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Director of Research of the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital, provides a unique perspective on how the revolution in genetics and genomics will affect the medicine of the future.

Closing Remarks:

Hartley S. Stern, M.D., F.R.C.S.C., F.A.C.S., Executive Director, Jewish General Hospital, Professor, Department of Surgery, McGill.

Complimentary parking: Visitors’ parking lot, Légaré Street.

Limited space available.